ctouch suggestions

[Dave Byron]

as it takes up 13 seconds to add a new group can a windows type spinning
hour glass be displayed when ctouch is busy - at least you know it not hung that way.

when a ctouch project is reload can the the database be reloaded at the same
time instead of having to exit ctouch and restarting to pick up database changes



dave

[Richo]

as it takes up 13 seconds to add a new group can a windows type spinning
hour glass be displayed when ctouch is busy - at least you know it not hung that way.

Hi Dave,

What version of C-Touch are you using? I think the preferred solution will be to make it take a lot less than 13 seconds.

when a ctouch project is reload can the the database be reloaded at the same time instead of having to exit ctouch and restarting to pick up database changes

As we move all our software to use C-Gate V2 as a our "tag database" they will be improved so all applications can be run concurrently and instantly update each other with database changes, even accross computer LANs if you have multiple integrators working on the same project togther.

The foundations for this have been put in place, but it will take a little while to upgrade all applications to support this. The next releases of software may still require restarts to pick up new groups etc... but we are actively removing this dependancy.

[Dave Byron]

Richo
using all the lastest toolkit 1.1.3 and ctouch bets 2.0.36
I will send the xml datbase to george to play with..

also another suggestion
as most of our homes have at least 2 touch screens i keep the xml in the same
directory as a lot of the stuff is common to all screens.
there i need to be able to select all the report (text ones) filenames so i can keep in the same disk directory
ie screen 1 - reportname1
screen 2 - reportname2



dave

[Richo]

Richo
using all the lastest toolkit 1.1.3 and ctouch bets 2.0.36
I will send the xml datbase to george to play with..

Thanks, he has forwarded it to me. I will look into the speed issue.

also another suggestion
as most of our homes have at least 2 touch screens i keep the xml in the same
directory as a lot of the stuff is common to all screens.
there i need to be able to select all the report (text ones) filenames so i can keep in the same disk directory
ie screen 1 - reportname1
screen 2 - reportname2


I would like to explore this further. One of our medium term goals is to centralise all project data into dedicated directories under C-Gate. This is opposite towhat you are doing.

To clarrify what you are saying. You keep all your C-Touch configurations in the one directory so that they can all share the same graphic files etc... Id that correct?

[Darren]

as it takes up 13 seconds to add a new group can a windows type spinning hour glass be displayed when ctouch is busy
What do you mean by "add a new group" exactly ?
when a ctouch project is reload can the the database be reloaded at the same time instead of having to exit ctouch and restarting to pick up database changes
This will be done eventually.
i need to be able to select all the report (text ones) filenames so i can keep in the same disk directory
This has been added to the "to do" list.

[Dave Byron]

Richo

quote:
I would like to explore this further. One of our medium term goals is to centralise all project data into dedicated directories under C-Gate. This is opposite towhat you are doing.

To clarrify what you are saying. You keep all your C-Touch configurations in the one directory so that they can all share the same graphic files etc... Id that correct?[/QUOTE]

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I keep all the files by project in the same directory ie jones as (1) gnd screen
(2) 1st screen and (3) garage screen xml files and bmp files in the jones directory.
So I need 3 different error, project summary etc files in the same directory - maybe like error1, error2 and error3 filenames

dave

[Garfield]

Given that the files are going to get overwritten each time they are automatically generated by the software, why not just rename or move the ones you want to keep ?

So generate the report for project #1 and then copy the html file and all of the associated image files to a sub-directory called "project 1 report" and so on.